Garment-supporting hook



(N0 Model.) I I G. A. WHITCHER. GARMENT SUPPORTING HOOK- No. 431,861. APatented July 8, 1890.

WITNESSES.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CARRIE ARDELIJE WHITOHER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

GARMENT-SUPPORTING HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,861, dated July 8,1890.

Application filed February 16, 1889. Serial No. 300,123. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CARRIE ARDELLE \VHITCHER, of Boston, in the countyof Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Garment-Supporting Hooks, of which the following, takenin connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved toilet pin orhookparticularly adapted to the connection or suspension of garments withmore convenience and greater elasticity and strength of attachmentthanhas heretofore been secured.

My invention consists of a double-spring hook or pin having a centralconnecting part, two hooked and pointed ends, and two intermediatepoiut-protecting shields or guards, all formed of a single piece ofspring-wire properly bent, as herein set forth.

The drawings show in perspective the peculiar character of my device,and represent it in Figure 1 with the points disengaged, while in Fig. 2the central part is attached to a strap or band, the hooks pass througha piece of fabric, and the points are held behind the guards.

A represents the central connecting part,

inade straight for attachmentto a suspending strap S or otherwise. Ateach end of this central part the wire is bent downwardly and theninwardly nearly to the center. At these inner points E the two parts ofthe wire are bent toward the front about horizontally and then outwardlyand back again nearly to the center, to form the guards orpoint-protectors C C in a plane forward of that of the part A. At theinner end of the guards the wire is bent rearwardly into its formerplane and then outwardly about parallel with the part A, then againinwardly in the original plane about as far as before. From here thehooks H extend downwardly, then curve to the front and upwardly,terminating in the points P, (shown free in Fig. 1,) and engaged behindthe guards G O in Fig. 2.

To make this construction more clear in the drawings, the various partsof the wire which are in the same rearward plane with the part A areshaded dark, while the guards, being in a plane in front thereof, areleft light. The bends of the wire give a spring action.

I am aware of the patent to Berbeeker, No. 360,555, dated April 5, 1887,showing a lambrequin-pin having a twisted shank extending rearwardlyfrom the pin for engagement in the suspending ring. Such pin is whollyunsuited to my purpose and does not embody my invention.

I claim as my invention- As an improved article of manufacture, thedouble-spring wire pin-hook herein described and shown, consisting ofthe plain central part A, the pointed terminal hooks II H,and theintermediate serpentine portion for each hook, beginning in the plane ofthe part A and having'the integral guards O C in front of said plane,substautiall y as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two snbseribin g witnesses, on this 20th day of December, A.D. 1888.

CARRIE ARDELLE \VHITCHER.

Witnesses:

A. H. SPENCER, J. G. KENNEDY.

